Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Principal Engineer
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Leading Clinical Technical Services
This is an exciting opportunity to lead our Clinical Technical Services within a department with a proud history of excellence and innovation. Our Medical Engineering & Maintenance Department (MEMD) is renowned for setting and developing the highest standards within the Clinical Engineering community and has maintained continuous ISO 9001 accreditation through BSI external auditing since 1990.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Principal Engineer to provide operational, technical and professional leadership across our Clinical Technical Services function, ensuring the safe, effective and compliant management of medical devices throughout the Trust and for external customers.
Key Responsibilities
As Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Ensuring the effective delivery of medical device maintenance services for all Trust-owned medical equipment and external customer contracts.
- Overseeing a skilled technical workforce.
- Managing key service contracts.
- Maintaining quality standards.
- Playing a pivotal role in supporting patient safety through robust medical device management.
- Leading the delivery of the Trust's Emergency Resuscitation Scheme.
- Supporting wider initiatives including medical device safety alerts, equipment replacement planning, and quality management system development.
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Who We Are Looking For
If you are passionate about clinical technology, quality improvement and leadership, we would love to hear from you.
More Information
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About Us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
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We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Peter Lee
- Job Title: HoS/Clinical Engineer
- Email Address: peter.lee3@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 01623 622 515 ext 3882
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